"
As Laieikawai was speaking to her grandmother, the same vision came to
Waka. Then they both arose at dawn and went as they had both been
directed by Kapukaihaoa in a vision.
They left the place, went to Keawanui, to the place called Kaleloa, and
there they met a man who was getting his canoe ready to sail for Lanai.
When they met the canoe man, Waka said: "Will you let us get into the
canoe with you, and take us to the place where you intend to go?"
Said the canoe man: "I will take you both with me in the canoe; the only
trouble is I have no mate to paddle the canoe."
And as the man spoke this word, "a mate to paddle the canoe," Laieikawai
drew aside the veil that covered her face because of her grandmother's
wish completely to conceal her grandchild from being seen by anyone as
they went on their way to Paliuli; but her grandchild thought otherwise.
When Laieikawai uncovered her face which her grandmother had concealed,
the grandmother shook her head at her grandchild to forbid her showing
it, lest the grandchild's beauty become thereafter nothing but a common
thing.
Now, as Laieikawai uncovered her face, the canoe man saw that Laieikawai
rivaled in beauty all the daughters of the chiefs round about Molokai
and Lanai.
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